Why don't I just build the whole web app in Javascript and Javascript HTML Templates?

Question

I\'m getting to the point on an app where I need to start caching things, and it got me thinking...

1. In some parts of the app, I render table rows (jqGrid, slickgri

Answer 1

I used to mix these two approaches but then switched to client side rendering entirely because it was really hard to handle heavy JavaScript properly the otherwise. As a complete solution can recommend the approach of the JavaScriptMVC framework.

It has a view rendering engine called EJS which can compress your views into plain JavaScript for a production build of your application. That makes it extremely fast (all your HTML gets preloaded with your single compressed JavaScript file so it is rendered as soon as you receive your models JSON data). I personally couldn't notice a performance difference between EJS rendering and transferring plain HTML.

Then for your API, following the REST principles, caching is one of the key constraints. So if your application supports HTTP caching properly for JSON data and using your compressed client side templates you might even see a performance improvement.